sale

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling.

n. An instance of selling.

n. An opportunity for selling or being sold; demand.

n. Availability for purchase: a store where pets are for sale.

n. A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.

n. A special disposal of goods at lowered prices: coats on sale this week.

n. Activities involved in selling goods or services.

n. Gross receipts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

n. this sense?) A particular opportunity for a sale.

n. The sale of goods at reduced prices.

n. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See 1st sallow.

n. The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

n. Opportunity of selling; demand; market.

n. Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of selling; also, a specific act or a continuous process of selling; the exchange or disposal of a commodity, right, property, or whatever may be the subject of bargain, for a price agreed on and generally payable in money, as distinguished from barter; the transfer of all right and property in a thing for a price to be paid in money.

n. In law, a contract for the transfer of property from one person to another, for a valuable consideration.

I had thought the book would be passed between friends or sisters or mothers and daughters; that my sisters, the unlucky-in-love, unhappy-in-their-own-skin big girls, would find it in the library or on the shelf at a rented summer house, or at a tag sale or a flea market; that they would read it and be comforted.

Be-ism arrived on the scene in 2005, when Jane Myer, a bank teller from South Africa—divorced, down on her luck, fifty pounds overweight, and unfortunately permed—came across an antique self-help pamphlet at whatever they call a tag sale in Afrikaans.